MacStansbury

Sam the Eagle gives us a reminder of why we have our Constitution: to keep us safe from weirdos. Brings a tear to my eye, it does.

Click through to see Sam the Eagle lead the Muppets in a rousing rendition of Stars and Stripes Forever.

Aside on Vimeo

The idea behind moving MacStansbury.com to a grid–based, wide–screen format was that I wanted to do two things. First, I wanted to make the site are readable as possible while balancing font sizes and width. Likewise, I wanted to post wide–format images and videos, and display them easily.

What I love about Vimeo is that you get great video quality so you can make the video ginormous without it looking like a free video sharing site. And most of the video producers there use a wide format, so it fits right into my site design. Plus, there is not so much as a hint of “Social Network VLog Interaction Design Yada Yada.”

Just to ensure that people don’t think that I’ve turned all serious, I present the greatest use of the Boba Fett fully–articulated action figure — ever.

Click through to see the video.

Why I Am Patriotic: A Love Letter to America:

I have a confession to make. I am truly, madly, deeply in love with America.

I love my country not because she is perfect, but because she wants so badly to be.

Longer post, but well worth the effort.

“One Nation” By Luis Garcia from CreativeMYK

This is the image I cropped to stick as the holiday banner (see it on the home page). Gonna use that as the default for all the more patriotic holidays.

Honestly glad to find this image to use, since I don’t really think I need to be using Charisma Carpenter wearing that flag any more. And by “honestly glad,” I mean, “I wish Charisma wasn’t wrapped in that flag, I wish she was wrapped up in some Suppa–Huggy Johnnie Bear!”

That would be me. I…would be…the Suppa–Huggy…thing.

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Too much information. Note to self: learn to fight impulses.

But I am incredibly thankful for the blessings I do have, even if those blessings are relatively Cordy–free.